Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-04-02
KEY TO THE SITUATION.

CHICAGO, ILL, April 1-Emissaries
from the sOCialistiC headquarters have
had frequent communications with Mayor
Harrison to-day, and they now boldly say
they cen show a list Of $4,000 polled
voers for the cialistic ticket. Joe
Gruenhuett, leading light of the social
lists and a city emplpye under Ms or
HARRISON, says: "Hi>t prV is being made
very fast just now You see changes in
European colony. The masses are daily
labOrers who don't own their business
Three hundred firms employ $50, 900
WOTkmen within ten miles of the city hall.
1t is distinctly C0pitslstic city. Her
fight is to be made between labor and cap
itsl. They are now face to face and the
time has come. Harrison is playing 8
pt culiar par. He was never elected by
the Democrats. The socialists made him
He has been honest enough to at least
acknowledge it. The tables have changed
The socialists have their own
ticket. The Democrats are asked to
get out of the way. The Mayor is in a
place II help them. 1t has been done
The Democrats will now return the COM
piiment by voting for the socialists
ticket. This is the understanding. The
present holders of the appOintiVe offices
will not be disturbed. On Tues
day next all of the Democracy
will vote our ticket, knowing they
will share the benefit. The campaign
will cost them nothing, and their old
enemies, the Republicans, will go down
before the fusion ticket. Talk about the
Irish, tell you that coercion hill is max
ing the Irishmen wild socialists every
day. We will carry every ward in Cal
cagO BY Xt Sunday the people may
become desperate for fear of the
socialists. The citizens may srise up in
d dag and compel all party lines to be
dropped, and demand the union of all
citizens TO defeat the socialists. If they
become an alarmed community they may
do it. This is the contest between
American commune and capitalists.
1t is irresistible"
TWO LETTERS.
Two letters issued this afternoon are
creating muCh comment. The first was
from Mayor Harrison's appointee as city
collector, William j. OmahaE, widely
known throughout the Coun-
try as President of the Irish
Catholic Colonization Society. Mr.
Omahan was the Democratic candidate
tor city treasurer. His letter empha tic-
ally aun ounces that, unlike Mayor Hsr-
risOn, he will under no CirCum StaUCe3
give the slightest aid to the election of
ticket put forward and ChamDiOned by all
known and avowed allies of socialism
and anarchy. Continuing, Mr.. Omahan
says Mr. POwderly, VINO represents aud
is The official spokesman for the Iegiti-
mate labor parties Of the cOun
try, repudiates and disavOWs, as
l am Informed, the acton Of the
political body which assumes to
put itself forward in Chicago as the
'labor party" The success of the so
called LABOR ticket the writer declares
would be fatal to the business interests
of the city and to the real welfare of the
labOTiDg classes. Mr. Omahan concludes
with the words: "If mus choose cleo
ton day between the Republican ticket
and that chempioned by the socialists,
shall vote the Republican ticket"
The other letter causing discussion
is from Robert Nelson, the unit
ed labor candidate for mayor.
Mr.. Nelson says in it that ne will, if
elected, regard the Office of mayor as
great and grave public trust. Eff encY
will be his sole guide in making appoint
ments to or removals from office and
the property and rights Of the people
will be protected and the law enforced.
publicans and Democrats alike pro-
nuunce Mr.. n lson's letter bid for the
allegiance of Democratic office holders
and city employees.